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1973 oil crisis - 640-foot (200 m) oil tanker Argo Merchant runs aground on the Nantucket Shoals

Time: Tuesday Dec 21, 1976

Place: U.S.

Details: 640-foot (200 m) oil tanker Argo Merchant runs aground on the Nantucket Shoals, spilling 7.6 million US gallons (29,000 m3) of No. 6 fuel oil.

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